NOTES!

These notes are on a movie we watched in class.

Brownie:

• first camera that was affordable enough for anyone to get.
• Was a small box (portable)
• Before that, photos took long amounts of time, and they were extremely formal

National Geographic (at the time, a failing science magazine) began the movement to reproduction of photos in magazines/newspapers.

• Made photography very popular
• Took pictures of places people wouldn’t normally see (Tibet, etc)\
• They also pioneered the color photo

Edward Curtis: Took photos of Native Americans

• Thought they were a “dying breed”
• Romanced the photos (Some were staged or costumed)

Pictorialists: Made photos look like art (paintings). They did a lot of work while developing them (like using different chemicals and such)
Straight Photography: Replaced the romantic pictorialists and their doctoring of photos with something more true and real. (Around time of Picasso) Many aspects of photography (like framing) came from this era.

WWI and its effect:

• Photos were now of people (not shapes)
• They portrayed American Soldiers as Valiant
• ALL of them were staged or taken from great distances
• NO DEAD PEOPLE IN PHOTOS!
• After the war though….
• Photos of dead soldiers appeared in magazines in such in an attempt to keep America out of the Second World War.

Tabloids!

• Took outrageous photos to try and get the most readers
• Most were staged, and some were even doctored.

-Babs